Logic of veganism

Hi
I wonder why we are pushing ourselves to be Vegan when human beings have canine teeth like carvivorous animals... oh look, we also have molars used to chew, like herbivores... btw another thing, our digestive systems are designed to eat plants and animals just like our teeth are....

Whats the logic in forcing ourselves to be vegan? surely, there must be a reason for all those design elements in us...

Hi
I wonder why we are pushing ourselves to be Vegan when human beings have canine teeth like carvivorous animals... oh look, we also have molars used to chew, like herbivores... btw another thing, our digestive systems are designed to eat plants and animals just like our teeth are....

Whats the logic in forcing ourselves to be vegan? surely, there must be a reason for all those design elements in us...

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If it's so natural to eat meat, why does it so often result in heart disease - the number one cause of death? How common are obese vegans? More to the point....
There is nothing natural about factory farming. It is a grotesque, horrific example of the depths of human depravity. Slavery, concentration camps, the treatment of American indians, etc are just other examples. If you are that desensitized to believe the misery and torture doesn't matter because they are just dumb animals, then go right ahead.
And btw, "we" aren't pushing ourselves, many including me like vegan food just fine. I don't feel I'm sacrificing anything other than a big gut, a shorter lifespan and inner guilt.

How well do you think you'd tear into some roadkill or raw flesh with our canines? Our teeth clearly are not for tearing flesh in this manner. How about giving a baby a bunny rabbit and an apple. Do you think instinctively that baby is going to bite into the bunny or the apple?

Another thing: I choose to be vegan for many reasons, but it is my choice. No one is forcing anyone the last time I checked. The only one's being forced are the animals to slaughter.

Please check out this video with an open mind. I think Earthling Ed sums up the canine teeth thing better than I can in text. He makes valid points...all of them, in my humble opinion.

Hi
I wonder why we are pushing ourselves to be Vegan when human beings have canine teeth like carvivorous animals... oh look, we also have molars used to chew, like herbivores... btw another thing, our digestive systems are designed to eat plants and animals just like our teeth are....

Whats the logic in forcing ourselves to be vegan? surely, there must be a reason for all those design elements in us...

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False comparison #1: Human "canine" teeth are nothing like carnivores and most omnivores. When is the last time you used them to tear into the raw flesh of an animal, drink it's blood, consume it's fur, anus, eyes and inner parts, and then crap them out just a few hours later? Uh never, right?

False comparison #2: Human digestive system is not made to consume animals, even cooking them and eating the muscle meat like most flesh eaters do. Your stomach acid isn't nearly as acidic as a carnivore's. Your intestine length if that of an herbivore, not carnivore. You are at the mercy of diseases like e-coli whereas natural carnivores are not. You need vitamin C in your diet whereas natural carnivores make it in their bodies.

No, the human is not a natural carnivore nor a natural omnivore. However, we have been designed to be able to adapt to eating flesh, but not well, and not for long periods or habitually. This is not an argument for occasional consumption, rather it is simply an acknowledgement that the human body can adapt (albeit very badly, with lots of toxic side effects) to animal product consumption in the diet. I tend to think this was meant in survival situations only, and certainly not the norm or according to design.